This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Qi3.2ACIB/1758 Message Board Post: Searching for information on my great great grandfather William Wallace Norton. Verbal family history has him being born in Canada in about 1820. Prior to that the family supposedly came from Ireland. He had a son named Elisher (Elisha) who was born in Gratiot or Kent Co. Michigan 23 March 1878 so he must have been in MI for awhile.